An idea from The World as Will and Representation

See a cruel person and the one they hurt as two separate lives, and the world looks unjust. Look past the veil that splits one will into many, and the harmer and the harmed are the same being: “Tat tvam asi”, this art thou.

From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

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